infer

[in·fer]

When you infer something, you read between the lines. To infer is to make a well informed guess if you see your mom’s bag on the table, you might infer that she’s home.

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To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

Verb
believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

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guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

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reason by deduction; establish by deduction

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conclude by reasoning; in logic

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draw from specific cases for more general cases

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v. t.
To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

v. t.
To offer, as violence.

v. t.
To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

v. t.
To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

v. t.
To show; to manifest; to prove.

Infer

In*fer" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inferred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inferring.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward, occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F. inf'82rer. See 1 st Bear.] 1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] Harvey. 2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.]

Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force.

4. To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true.

Such opportunities always infer obligations.

5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]

The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.

This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

Inferable

In*fer"a*ble (?; 277), a. Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer.

A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises.

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

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